What Truckers Want You to Know - Input from Truckers Please!

My biggest pet peeve is the center lane cruisers or the center lane cruiser riding along with someone else doing the exact same speed.

 

Pass or stay away.
Pass quickly

When i try to pass, don't speed up..
Actually just go the speed limit in most states I won't even be able to pass you.

 

Think about it we have more weight in RUBBER than your whole car.
Turn signal is not a yellow light that means speed up
when we have passed someone we will get ahead of the slower vehicle so don't get in a hurry and slide right the second you can squeeze in.

 

I'm a 4 wheeler, but work for a well known trucking company. One of my biggest pet peeves is on ramps. When coming onto the highway, get your speed up, get on and get moving. Why do people slow down on the on ramps, then nearly come to a stop before merging on to the highway? A 4 wheeler can get up speed faster than a truck, and 9 times outta 10, if you just step into it, the truck will not have to slow down, and you can easily get on the highway and get on down the road.

Also, don't hang out beside a truck. Pass it already. In the wintertime especially, do 4 wheelers realize that if snow/ice on top of the trailer breaks loose, and they are hanging out right behind or beside a trailer, that ice is going to come right at them?

4 wheelers have got to learn to respect trucks and give them space. It shouldn't all be put on the truck drivers. They go through a lot more training for their CDL than any 4 wheeler driver does to get their license.

Thank you to all the drivers that work holidays and weekends, are away from their families for weeks at a time, and who get the product to the store so we can get it off the shelf, through all kinds of weather and traffic woes.

 

A car was doing this in NJ one night. Driving 55 in the center lane; speed limit 65. The truck was coming up behind him and flashed brights at the car. The car ignored him. Truck gets on car's ### and again flashes brights. Car taps brake lights. Truck eases up and makes contact with car's bumper, then lets hammer down and accelerates car to 65. Car floors it and disappears at 100+ mph.

So, cars, don't get in a shoving match with an 18 wheeler.

 

Don't flash your brights at another vehicle. Flick your lights off and on. Also, don't leave your brights on when behind a vehicle. All that does is blind the vehicle in front of you. I had a neighbor that used to leave at the same time I did every morning, if he got in front of me he would creep along and I couldn't pass him. If I got in front, he would stay right behind me with his brights on. One morning I had enough of his bright lights, so I adjusted my outside mirror so the lights shined right back at him. A couple mornings of doing that and he quit using his brights and staying right on my bumper.

 

I'm signaling my intent, not asking for permission.

Don't assume that I'm going to move over because you're on the on-ramp. They're is possibly a car on my left side.

MERGE! Look it up!

Don't break your neck to pass me then slow down right in front of me.

It takes a half second longer, and is a lot safer, if you change lanes BEHIND me in order to not miss your exit!